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What situation might warrant a cease-and-desist letter?

cease

[sees] / sis /


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But a professional firm will always have a trust manager available to take on the role, and if they cease operations, it would pass to another company.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Wildcats, she says, "never cease to surprise us."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The plaintiffs are asking that Suno be ordered to cease using the artists’ identities and are seeking unspecified damages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

But Zeus looked at him sternly and told him he was as intolerable as his mother, and bade him cease his whining.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet the drag on the bottom line ceases after chips are fully depreciated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Researchers refer to this phenomenon as Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Every assignment, he explains, ceases to be an individual endeavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Abroad, it meant travel, the Grand Tour, and a flow of tourist funds to those countries that has never ceased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

What happened: As the war approached its six-month mark, both sides mostly ceased military attacks, but shifted to economic pressure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Some trucking companies have ceased doing business, and many more will likely fail if high fuel costs do not subside soon.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Facing the sea, Havana's famous Malecon seawall has ceased to be a promenade for tourists or lovers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

A low cheeping sound of dinner conversation ceased.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

CoinEx said it was ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ferguson’s Law states that “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Given all that, I was somewhat surprised to see heartfelt eulogies for the mail-order racket when Columbia House announced it was ceasing operations later this year.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

OnPoint Logistics will be ceasing operations at its San Francisco location and cutting 96 jobs, according to a government filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

A milder state of emergency, Code Blue, called for ceasing all inmate movement and locking down the whole jail.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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